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Abbey, Edward. THE BRAVE COWBOY. Dodd, Mead, [1956]. First edition of the author's second and scarcest book. 8vo. The source for the 1962 Kirk Douglas movie, retitled "Lonely Are The Brave" and with the screenplay written by Dalton Trumbo. Hardcover. Fine in a fine, unfaded dust jacket that has been imperceptibly restored at the spine by a master conservator.
$7,500.00
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Albee, Edward. THE ZOO STORY / The Death Of Bessie Smith / The Sandbox. New York: Coward-McCann, 1960. First edition of the author's first book. 8vo. Laid into this copy is an edifying 1963 TLS from Albee in which he articulates his artistic credo: "No beginning playwright, or no playwright at all for that matter, can tell totally about his work until he sees it on stage. Just as I believe that teaching playwriting entirely by lecture is pointless..." Some 175 words. Also laid in is a small sepia photograph of Albee that he has signed. Hardcover. Fine in an equally fine, first state dust jacket with the $2.75 price on the inner flap. Later jackets, which are what you generally encounter, were price-clipped by the publisher and the price was raised to $3.50
$3,000.00
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Allen, Woody. (Pseudonym of Allen Stewart Konigsberg). DEATH: A Comedy In One Act. New York: Samuel French, [1975]. First edition. 8vo. This copy has the original price of $1.00 printed on the front cover. Almost all the copies of this book that we have seen over the years have a subsequent price of $1.75 stamped over the original price. Printed wrappers. Fine.
$375.00
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Allen, Woody. (Pseudonym of Allen Stewart Konigsberg). GOD: A Comedy In One Act. New York: Samuel French, [1975]. First edition. 8vo. This copy retains the original price of $1.00 printed on the front cover. Virtually all other copies we have encountered over the years bear a stamped price of $1.75 over the original price. Scarce thus. Printed wrappers. Fine.
$375.00
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Allen, Woody. (Pseudonym of Allen Stewart Konigsberg). PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. New York: Random House, [1969]. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with scenes from the Broadway play. Allen wrote the screenplay for the 1972 movie adaptation, and directed and starred in it. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine, unfaded dust jacket. Highly uncommon thus.
$750.00
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Ambler, Eric. THE INTERCOM CONSPIRACY. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1969]. Uncorrected proofs. 8vo. This copy is inscribed to a friend by the author: "From Eric Ambler A.K.A. Firman, A.G. London, May 91." A.G. Firman, which was Ambler's business company, is identified on the copyright page as the holder of copyright. This copy has been extensively copy-edited by Ambler in the margins, attesting to his meticulousness in rendering the text to his satisfaction. Decorated wrappers. Fine.
$1,000.00
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[Art]. Hockney, David. HOCKNEY'S ALPHABET: Drawings by David Hockney & Contributions by 25 Writers. London: Faber and Faber for the AIDS Crisis, 1991. First edition. Small folio. Edited by Stephen Spender. One of 300 copies (250 for sale) printed on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper, specially bound in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper sides, signed by Hockney, Spender and 22 of the contributors. Four contributors, Paul Theroux, Ted Hughes, Gore Vidal and Anthony Burgess, were unavailable or otherwise engaged at the time and unable to sign the book. But the 22 who did sign constitute a who's who of contemporary British and American letters: Seamus Heaney, Martin Amis. Kazuo Ishiguru, Iris Murdoch, William Golding, Julian Barnes, V. S. Pritchett, William Boyd, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Arthur Miller, Norman Mailer, Margaret Drabble, Ian McEwan, Doris Lessing , Susan Sontag, et al. An unmitigated triumph of the bookmaking art. Hardcover. Fine in publisher's box.
$5,000.00
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[Art]. Jay, Ricky. JAY'S JOURNAL OF ANOMALIES. Los Angeles: Ricky Jay / W & V Dailey, 1994 to 2000. 16 issues (all published). 4to. Profusely illustrated in color, some of which are tipped in. Printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh. Present here is the rare original promotional broadside for this astonishing melange of arcana and scholarship by the peerless prestidigitator. The broadside describes the series as "a quarterly periodical devoted to the investigation of conjurers, cheats, hoaxters, pranksters, jokesters, imposters, pretenders, side-show showmen, armless calligraphers, mechanical marvels, popular entertainments." Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Housed in a custom-made quarter-leather clamshell box.
$3,500.00
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[Art]. Richter, Hans. DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY. New York: Films International of America, 1947. First edition. 8vo. 24-page program for the legendary Surrealist film. With a cover illustration by Max Ernst and illustrated throughout with scenes from the color film which was written, produced and directed by Hans Richter. The list of contributors to the production is awe-inspiring: Max Ernst, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, John Cage, Paul Bowles, Darius Milhaud, David Diamond, Libby Holman, Josh White, John Latouche, Julien Levy, and Jack Bittner who is the protagonist of the seven dreams. Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
$750.00
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Ashbery, John. TURANDOT And Other Poems. New York: Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. First edition of the poet's first book. 8vo. One of 300 copies. Decorated wrappers with label. A fine, fresh copy with the fragile yapp-edges but slightly creased.
$5,000.00
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Auden, W[ystan] H[ugh]. NATURE, HISTORY AND POETRY! The Bronx: Thought [i.e. Fordham University Quarterly], September 1950. First edition. 4to. An offprint from the magazine in which the poet eruditely probes his subject with philosophical logic. Though Bloomfield and Mendelson cite the magazine in their bibliography of Auden's works, no mention is made of this first separate publication. As such this pamphlet stands among the poet's rarest "A" items. Stapled wrappers. Fine.
$1,500.00
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